Ruling and erasing implement.



PATBNTED MAR. 3, 1903. A. W. STEIGER.

RULING AND ERASING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1902.

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ANDREV W. STEIGER, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO UNIONTYPEIVRITER COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORA- TION OF NEWJERSEY.

RULING AND ERASING liVlPLElVlENT.

SPECIFTCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,160, dated March 3,1903.

Application filed .Tnly 181 1902.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, ANDREW W. STEIGER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rulingand Erasing Implements, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates more particuro larlyto marking or rulingimplements; and

the main object thereof is to provide a simple, cheap, and efficientdevice of the character specified.

To the above and other ends which will I5 hereinafter appear myinvention consists in the novel features of construction, arrangementsof parts, and combinations of devices, all as will be hereinafter morefully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended zo claims.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference charactersdesignate corresponding parts in the various views, Figure l is a sideelevation of one form of instrument or device embodying my invention.Fig. 2 is an inside View of one half or section of the case or handle ofthe instrument with, certain of the devices shown in place therein. Fig.3 is a transverse sectional view of the instrument, 3o the section beingtaken on the line :c of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a like view of the same, takenon the line y y of Fig. l; and Fig. 5 is an edge view of the case orhandle.

The implement comprises devices for efficiently making or ruling lines,and it also comprises erasing devices, thus providing a convenientinstrument useful to bookkeepers, type-writers, clerks, and others. Oneform of myinvention is shown in the accompa- 4o nying drawings, and theimplement is drawn about twice the size I prefer to make it.

The casing, preferably made in two sections a and l), may be ofanysuitable contour and so as to constitute a handle for the instrument.The casing is preferably made of sheet metal, each section having ageneral circular contour with flattened sides c and semicylindricalsocket portions CZ and e, that project outwardly from the edges thereof.One socket 5o in the case formed by the half-socket portions Serial No.116,052. (No model.)

in the two sections may receive a rubber eraser fand the other socketthe cylindrical shank of a knife or knife eraser g, which is heldfriction-tight in its socket and may when desired be turned in thehandle or socket to any angular position to facilitate the use of theknife as an eraser.

Projecting outwardly from the edge of each half-case are two ears, as hand t' orj and 7c. The ears h andy' are in substantial alinement 6o withthe meeting edges ,e of the two case-sections, and the ears t' and lf;are offset or located nearer to the flattened sides c. The two sectionsa and l) of the casing have their socket portions d and e and the ears7L and 7c 65 and t' and j so disposed that when the sections are broughttogether the companion socket portions and ears are brought opposite toone another or in register. The earst' andj and h and Z5 are spacedapart for the reception of 7o ruling-rollers or marking-wheels Z andfm., and the offsetting of the ears, as hereinbefore described,maintains the wheels in dierent parallel planes for purposes which willhereinafter appear. The ears h and t' andy and 7i; 75 are provided withradial slots or bearing-openings o, which receive trunnions or pivots non the marking-wheels and so that said wheels may move radially in theirbearings as well as rotate.

Rollers or bobbins j) and q are mounted side by side to rotate withinthe casing or handle, and each roller or bobbin comprises a peripheralinking-pad lr, of felt or other suitable material, which, however, doesnot extend to the peripheries of the side plates or flanges s thereof,and thus the ink of one pad is prevented from getting onto the otherpad. One pad may be provided, say, with red ink and the other with blueink.

The fact that the marking-wheels are in dierent parallel planes enableseach of them to be arranged in the plane of one of the inking-rollers,so that the marking periphery of the wheel may enter between the flangessof 95 an inking-roller and bear upon its inking-pad and be suppliedwith ink therefrom.

The radially-slotted bearings enable the ruling wheels or rollers tobear upon and sink deeper into the surfaces of their inking-pads Ioo asincreased pressure is applied to the rollers, thus taking up more orless ink from the pads as pressure on the wheels is increased ordiminished, so that a heavy or light line may be produced at will.

The sections a and b of the casing or handle are shown as securedtogether by a rivet t, which passes through the central bearings in theinking rollers or bobbins and constitutes a pivot therefor; butobviously any other suitable connecting means, as a screw, may beemployed to secure the sections of the case or handle together.

To conveniently renewthe ink of the pads orink-reservoirs, holes u areprovided in the casing, each hole being in the plane of itsinking-roller, and the two holes are preferably of different shapes toprovide an indicating means, and thus prevent an accidental miX- ing ofthe inks when replenishing the supply.

It will be understood that any suitable number of marking-wheels may beprovided and that the different wheels andink-pads arein a measureindependent of each other, so that different-colored inks or inks havingdifferent characteristics, such as record and copying inks, may beapplied to the different pads'.

While ordinarily a single marking-wheel is employed at a time, it willbe observed from an examination of Fig. l that the arrangement of theradially-disposed marking-wheels is such that, if desired, both wheelsmay be employed at the same time and double parallel lines produced,which is sometimes desirable where a double underscoring is to beprovided.

In use the marking-wheels are run over the paper or article to be ruled,and thereby rotated. The rotation of a marking wheel or roller underpressure will cause it to contact with its cooperating inking-pad and totransmit rotation thereto, and thereby the edge or periphery of themarking-wheel is automatically inked and the ink transferred to thepaper.

The ruling edge of each marking wheel or roller may be uninterruptedthroughout its extent, so that a plain line may be ruled, or

the edge may be serrated to make a line consisting of a series of dotsor dashes, or one Wheel may have a continuous edge and the other aninterrupted edge for different kinds of ruling.

From the foregoing description it Will be seen that I have provided asingle simple,

cheap, and efficient instrument embodying marking devices and differentcharacters of erasing devices, which instrument may be used withoutliability of soiling the hands and which may be convenientlyemployed byoperators of type-writing machines for underscoring, ruling, orproducing ornamental work as the writing proceeds and without necessityof removing the work from the machine. ,The implement will enable anoperator to perform this work with greater rapidity and in a neatermanner than suchvwork can be accomplished with the type-writing machineitself.

WhileI have shown and described one form or embodiment of my invention,it should be understood that various changes may be made withoutdeparting from the spirit thereof and that certain of the features maybe employed without the others.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In adevice of the character specified, the combination of aninclosing and protecting case or handle, an inking-roller inclosed andprotected thereby, and a marking roller mounted therein to bear upon andreceive ink from the inking-roller and deliver it outside the case,substantially as set forth.

2. In a device of the character speeiied,the combination with aninclosing case or handle, of an inking-roller having protecting-flangesand a marking-roller mounted to bear upon the vinking surface andproject outward through the protecting-case, all substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

3. In a device of the character specified, the combination with aninclosing and protecting handle or case, of a series of inking-rollersmounted therein and aseries of markingrollers, one for eachinking-roller, mounted in the said handle, each marking-roller bearingonly upon its appropriate inking-roller and carrying marking mattertherefrom to a surface outside the protecting-case, all as and for thepurpose set forth.

4. In a device of the character specied,the combination of a protectingcase or handle, a plurality of independent marking rollers mounted torevolve in said handle or casing and projecting therefrom at differentpoints, a plurality of independent inking-rollers, one for eachmarking-roller, arranged within said handle or case, and means forenabling each of said inking-rollers to be independently supplied withink from outside the case or handle, substantially as set forth.

5. A device of the character specified, comrisinof a twoart handle orcasino" each art D e P e,

having bearings and socket portions formed therein,inkingrollerscontained and adapted to rotate within said casing, a plurality ofindependent marking-wheels each of which is supported in the bearingsformed in the casing and each of which cooperates with an associatedinking-roller, and a knife eraser and a rubber eraser arranged withinthe sockets formed on the said casing.

6. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a handleor casing made of a plurality of parts, a connection which unites saidparts, an interiorlyarranged nkingroller that is mounted to revolve onsaid connection, and a marking-roller that cooperates with saidnking-roller.

7. In a device ofthe character specified, the combination of a handle orcasing made of a IOO IIO

plurality of parts, a connection Which unites said parts, a plurality ofhiking-rollers that are mounted to revolve side by side on saidconnection and a plurality of marking-rollers mounted in differentparallel planes in the handle or casing and cooperating With saidinking-rollers.

8. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a handlehaving a bobbin containing an ink-pad, and a marking-Wheel provided withmeans for affording a limited radial movement thereof in a portion ofthe handle, substantially as described.

9. In a device ofthe character specified, the combination of a handle, apad mounted between the projecting flanges of a rotatable bobbin,and amarking-Wheel mounted in slots in ears projecting from the handle.

10. In a device of the character speciied, the combination withreservoirs of diierent ink Within a handle, of markers registering Witheach iuk-reservoir, substantially as described.

ll. In a device of the character specified, the combination ofreservoirs of dilerent inks mounted therein a two-part handle, and arotary marker for each reservoir.

l2. In a device of the character specified, a case having inclosedink-reservoirs and having different-shaped inking-holes opposite thereservoirs.

13. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a handleor casing, a plurality of parallel marking-wheels mounted in saidcasing, and means inclosed within the casing for automatically inkingsaid Wheels.

14. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a handleor casing, a plurality of separate, independently movable parallelmarking-wheels mounted in said casing and capable either of separate orconjoint use and means inclosed Within the casing for automaticallyinking said Wheels when the device is in use.

v l5. In a device of the character specified, the combination of atwo-part case, a transverse connection therefor, an inking-rollermounted on said connection Within the case, slotted ears projecting fromthe latter, and a marking-wheel rotatably mounted between said ears, andhaving a bodily movement toward and from said inking-roller.

16. A ruling and erasing implement comprising two plates clampedtogether and formed with radiating ears and socket portions at theiredges, erasers fitted and held Within said socket portions,marking-rollers mounted to rotate in said ears, andindependently-revoluble inking-rollers inclosed Within said plates andadapted each to ink only one of said marking-rollers- Signed atBridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, this16th day of July, A. D. 1902.

ANDREW W. STEIGER.

Witnesses:

WM. A. REDDEN, FRANK J. HINCHEY.

